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sff_corgi_lj ([personal profile] sff_corgi_lj) wrote2007-06-25 07:22 am
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Fascinating reading

Geekish reading, at least. MEGAFAUNA — First Victims of the Human-Caused Extinction by Baz Edmeades, complete book on-line (HTML/PDF)

...and that kinda goes with this animated presentation, 'Journey of Mankind: The Peopling of the World'. There are links off that page, my AngloCeltic siblings, so you can find out what male-line genetic part of Britain you're descended from (read this summation in the New York Times article, 'A United Kingdom? Maybe'). The female-line tests from the same company aren't British-Isles-specific.

Lastly, a photo-tour of a New Egg shipping warehouse (ooo, nifty tech); and an 8-page story by Bruce Sterling, We See Things Differently. (Take a look at the RevolutionSF FAQ, too.)

[identity profile] barsukthom.livejournal.com 2007-06-25 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
More Geekish reading- "The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes", by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith

[identity profile] cerrberus.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
Jared Diamond favors the human-caused megafauna extinction theory, too, but dang! I just in the past couplish weeks read something somewhere about an alternate theory, something to do with a very rapidly occurring climate shift that the large creatures couldn't adapt to. If I track it down again I'll LYK.

[identity profile] cerrberus.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Right. I had seen something like this:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/10/011025072315.htm
but also in searching tonight I found this, even mo' better:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1379450.htm